It was early evening. Everyone was gone. I was staring into my monitors clicking at the keyboard.<\/p>\n
The janitor came around the corner pushing his cart, emptying the garbage cans and dusting off our desks.<\/p>\n
I turned to look at him. \u201cHi Carlos,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
He mumbled which was unlike him. Usually he comes by and says \u201cHello David\u201d in an upbeat voice, sometimes talking about his other job, sometimes talking about his wife who is due in July. But today he mumbled something that I couldn\u2019t hear.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy you call me Carlos,\u201d he said. \u201cYou always call me Carlos. I\u2019m not Carlos.”<\/p>\n
I was stunned. Embarrassed. Ashamed. It was something I took seriously, our conversations in the early evening, the fact that we addressed each other by name.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2026?\u201d I said. \u201cWhat\u2019s your name?”<\/p>\n
\u201cMarco,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh gosh. And I\u2019ve been calling you Carlos for months. I\u2019m so sorry.”<\/p>\n
So how perfect is that. Mr. InTouchWithThoseAroundHim<\/em> has been calling Marco Carlos for months in smug satisfaction that he knew the man\u2019s name when indeed he was just as oblivious as anyone else in the building.<\/p>\n More oblivious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was early evening. Everyone was gone. I was staring into my monitors clicking at the keyboard. The janitor came around the corner pushing his cart, emptying the garbage cans and dusting off our desks. I turned to look at him. \u201cHi Carlos,\u201d I said. He mumbled which was unlike him. Usually he comes by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3170,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}